죽음을 기다리는 기쁨 (2020년 3월 18일 수요일)
베드로전서 1장 3절 ~ 9절
3우리 주 예수 그리스도의 아버지 하나님을 찬송하리로다
그의 많으신 긍휼대로 예수 그리스도를 죽은 자 가운데서 부활하게 하심으로 말미암아
우리를 거듭나게 하사 산 소망이 있게 하시며
4썩지 않고 더럽지 않고 쇠하지 아니하는 유업을 잇게 하시나니 곧 너희를 위하여 하늘에 간직하신 것이라
5너희는 말세에 나타내기로 예비하신 구원을 얻기 위하여
믿음으로 말미암아 하나님의 능력으로 보호하심을 받았느니라
6그러므로 너희가 이제 여러 가지 시험으로 말미암아 잠깐 근심하게 되지 않을 수 없으나
오히려 크게 기뻐하는도다
7너희 믿음의 확실함은 불로 연단하여도 없어질 금보다 더 귀하여
예수 그리스도께서 나타나실 때에 칭찬과 영광과 존귀를 얻게 할 것이니라
8예수를 너희가 보지 못하였으나 사랑하는도다
이제도 보지 못하나 믿고 말할 수 없는 영광스러운 즐거움으로 기뻐하니
9믿음의 결국 곧 영혼의 구원을 받음이라
DEATH ROW JOY [죽음을 기다리는 기쁨]
Though you do not see him now,
you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy.
[ 1 PETER 1:8 ]
이제도 보지 못하나 믿고 말할 수 없는 영광스러운 즐거움으로 기뻐하니 [베드로전서 1:8]
In 1985 Anthony Ray Hinton was charged with the murders of two restaurant managers.
It was a set up-he’d been miles away when the crimes happened-
but he was found guilty and sentenced to death.
At the trial, Ray forgave those who lied about him,
adding that he still had joy despite this injustice.
“After my death, I’m going to heaven,” he said. “Where are you going?”
1985년 앤서니 레이 힌튼은 두 명의 식당 매니저를 살해한 혐의로 기소되었습니다.
그것은 조작된 것이었습니다.
그는 사건 당시 몇 마일 떨어진 곳에 있었지만 유죄 판결을 받고 사형을 언도 받았습니다.
재판에서 레이는 자신에 대해 거짓말한 사람들을 용서하며,
이런 억울함에도 불구하고 자신은 여전히 기쁘다고 말했습니다.
“나는 죽으면 천국에 갑니다. 당신들은 어디로 갑니까?”
Life on death row was hard for Ray.
Prison lights flickered whenever the electric chair was used for others,
a grim reminder of what lay ahead.
Ray passed a lie detector test but the results were ignored,
one of many injustices he faced getting his case reheard.
레이에게는 사형수 생활이 힘들었습니다.
다른 사형수들에게 전기의자가 사용될 때마다 교도소 불빛이 깜빡거렸는데,
그 일은 앞으로 자신에게 일어날 일을 암울하게 상기시켜 주었습니다.
레이는 거짓말 탐지기 테스트를 통과했지만 그 결과는 무시되었습니다.
그것은 그의 사건에 대한 재심 결정이 나기 전까지 당했던 많은 부당한 일들 중 하나였습니다.
Finally, on Good Friday 2015,
Ray’s conviction was overturned by the US Supreme Court.
He’d been on death row for nearly thirty years.
His life is a testament to the reality of God.
Because of his faith in Jesus, Ray had a hope beyond his trials (1 PETER 1:3~5)
and experienced supernatural joy in the face of injustice (V. 8).
“This joy that I have,” Ray said after his release,
“they couldn’t ever take that away in prison.”
Such joy proved his faith to be genuine (VV. 7~8).
마침내 2015년 성금요일에 미국 대법원은 레이의 유죄판결을 뒤집었습니다.
그는 거의 30년 동안 사형수로 살아 왔습니다.
그런 그의 삶이야말로 하나님의 실재를 보여주는 증거입니다.
레이는 예수님을 믿는 믿음 때문에 시련 중에도 소망을 가질 수 있었으며(베드로전서 1:3-5),
불의 앞에서도 초자연적인 기쁨을 경험할 수 있었습니다(8절).
레이는 풀려난 후에 “내가 가진 이 기쁨은 감옥에서 절대 빼앗을 수 없었다”고 말했습니다.
그런 기쁨은 그의 믿음이 참된 것임을 증명해 주었습니다(7-8절).
Death row joy? That’s hard to fabricate.
It points us to a God who exists even though He’s unseen
and who’s ready to sustain us in our own ordeals.
사형수가 기뻐할 수 있다고요? 그것은 억지로 할 수 있는 것이 아닙니다.
그런 기쁨은 눈에 보이지 않아도 살아 계시고 시련 중에 우리를 붙드시는 하나님을 가리켜 보여줍니다.
- SHERIDAN VOYSEY
Reflect on others who’ve experienced God’s joy in their ordeals.
What have been the qualities of their faith?
How can you bring God’s joy to someone facing injustice right now?
시련 중에 하나님의 기쁨을 경험했던 사람들을 떠올려 보십시오.
그들의 믿음의 특징이 무엇이었습니까?
바로 지금 억울함을 겪고 있는 사람에게 어떻게 하나님의 기쁨을 전해줄 수 있을까요?
God of all hope, fill us with Your joy and peace as we trust in You
despite our circumstances.
We love You!
모든 소망의 하나님, 우리가 어떤 상황에도 하나님을 신뢰할 때 우리를 당신의 기쁨과 평화로 채워주소서.
하나님을 사랑합니다.
위키피디아
Anthony Ray Hinton
Anthony Ray Hinton | |
|---|---|
 Hinton in 2019 | |
| Born | June 1, 1956 Alabama, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Author, activist |
Anthony Ray Hinton (born June 1, 1956) is an American man who was wrongly convicted of the 1985 murders of two fast food restaurant managers in Birmingham, Alabama, sentenced to death, and held on the state's death row for 28 years.[1][2][3][4][5]
In 2015 the Supreme Court of the United States unanimously overturned his conviction on appeal, and the state dropped all charges against him. It was unable to affirm the forensic evidence of a gun, which was the only evidence in the first trial.[2] After being released, Hinton wrote and published a memoir The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row (2018).[2]
Background[edit]
Incidents[edit]
On February 25 and July 2, 1985, two fast food managers, John Davidson and Thomas Wayne Vason, were killed in separate incidents during armed robberies at their restaurants in Birmingham.[1] A survivor of a third restaurant robbery picked a photo of Anthony Ray Hinton, then age 29, from a lineup, and the police investigated him. He worked at a supermarket warehouse and lived with his mother Buhlar Hinton at her home in rural Alabama, about a half hour north of Birmingham.[2]
Arrest, prosecution and conviction[edit]
After Hinton's arrest, his public defense attorney did not provide adequate counsel. He said to Hinton, "All of y'all blacks always say you didn’t do something." and "Y'all blacks always sticking up for each other." The credibility of his ballistics expert - the only one the attorney thought he could hire with the funds available - was torn apart by the prosecutor due to the expert's physical limitations and lack of experience.[3][6] The jury disregarded the testimony of Hinton's boss, who testified that he was at work at the time of the alleged crimes.[2]
The prosecution's only evidence at the trial was a statement that ballistics tests showed four crime scene bullets matched Hinton's mother's gun, which was discovered at her house during the investigation. No fingerprints or eyewitness testimony were introduced. Hinton was convicted of each of the two murders and sentenced to death.[1][2]
Death row[edit]
He was sent to death row, which meant that he was held in solitary confinement for nearly three decades. During his decades in prison, he was supported by his mother's unwavering faith in his innocence, as well as that of a longtime friend, Lester Bailey, who visited him monthly. His mother died in 2002.[3]
While on death row, Hinton began to read frequently. He eventually organized a book club that was allowed to meet in the prison's law library. Among the authors whom the prisoners read and discussed were James Baldwin and Harper Lee. Finally Hinton was the last prisoner left on death row.[2]
Appeals[edit]
Hinton's initial appeals continued to be handled by his public defender, who lost each case. After Hinton had been on death row about a decade, the Equal Justice Initiative (a non-profit based in Montgomery, Alabama), picked up his case,[2] handling his defense for 16 years.[4] During the appeals, EJI introduced evidence from three forensics experts, including one from the FBI, showing that the bullets from the crime scenes did not match Hinton's mother's gun. But the state court of Alabama refused to overturn his convictions or grant a new trial.[1]
Exoneration, release and aftermath[edit]
Responding to an appeal that reached the US Supreme Court in 2014, the Court ruled that Hinton's original defense lawyer was "constitutionally deficient", and remanded his case to the lower court for retrial. Hinton's defense lawyer had wrongly thought he had only $1,000 available to hire a ballistics expert to rebut the state’s case on evidence. The only expert willing to testify at that price was a civil engineer with little ballistics training and limited by having one eye; he admitted in court to having trouble in operating the microscope.[3]
After the Supreme Court ruling, on April 1, 2015 the Jefferson County district attorney’s office moved to drop the case. Their forensics experts were unable to match crime-scene bullets to Hinton's mother's gun. Prosecutors admitted that they could not match four bullets found at the crime scene with Hinton's gun, and that this was the only evidence offered in the original murder trial.[1]
At 9:30 am on April 3, 2015, Hinton was released from prison after Laura Petro, Jefferson County Circuit judge, overturned his conviction and the state dropped all charges against him.[4][5]
Hinton is the 152nd person since 1973 to be exonerated from death row in the United States, and the sixth in the state of Alabama. He said, “Everybody that played a part in sending me to death row, you will answer to God.”[3][7] Hinton filed a claim for nearly $1.5 million in compensation for his time in jail due to wrongful conviction. The legislature has resisted approval of this payment, as state authorities say that he did not prove his innocence.
Since his release, Hinton has spoken in various venues about the injustices of the Alabama judicial system and other issues related to his conviction and imprisonment. He completed a memoir entitled The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row (2018), and has given readings and talks around the country about the book and his experiences.[2]
On May 19, 2019, Hinton spoke at St. Bonaventure University's commencement exercises and was awarded an honorary Doctor of Human Letters degree.[8] He had previously spoken to the students of the Class of 2019, six months after his release, in 2015. The students had been so inspired by his earlier address that over 100 of them submitted a petition to the university administration, asking that he be invited to speak at commencement.[9]
나랑 동갑인데...30년을 감옥에 있었다니...아이고.....ㅠㅠ
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